Category: News Updates
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Interview – Art Swank on Main FM
Here is a brief and fun interview I did about the work of “This Charming Man” with the delightful Suzanne and Frank of Artswank, the Sunday morning Arts program on Main FM. https://soundcloud.com/dreamcentral/artswank-28816 I’m first up, about 3 minutes in.
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“This Charming Man”
This Charming Man is an exhibition of functional ceramic vessels, including whisky, wine, coffee and tea cups, as well as experimental sculptural work investigating the complexities of an overwhelmingly ‘masculine’ sports culture within Australia. Artist Katie Jacobs has contrasted traits typically valued within sports, such as “Hard” or “Tough”, with sentiments such as “Fallible” or “Gentle”,…
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Exhibition opening August 4th
No Such Thing as Social Sport Window Exhibition by Artist Katie Jacobs Opens 4th August – runs to 1st September Anthony DiMase Architects 342 St Georges Road, North Fitzroy Melbourne, Victoria, 3068 Katie Jacobs is a ceramicist/artist/designer from Melbourne, Australia, who is inspired by various obsessions with popular culture, iconography and the Australian identity. Through…
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New Online Store!
Head on over to my new store here, at: www.katiejacobs.bigcartel.com for handmade and unique Christmas presents. All online purchases before December 16th 2015, will receive 5 free hand-made gift tags (which are non-Christmas themed so you can use them any time).
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The Now! Body
“The Now! Body – A One Night, Life Changing, All-over Body Xtreme New Power Revolution”takes fitness culture to the extreme to draw attention to and make light of its tropes. Christina Weaver, Nathan Perry and Katie Jacobs examine the underlying ideas of instant gratification, body-image and self-improvement in Western culture. “The Now! Body” investigates the…
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Wolf Head (with sound)
I made this sculpture of a wolf head from ceramics, with sound recordings of humans at a tailgate field emitting from it. I wanted to make an analogy with humans getting drunk and playful and bonding, but also sounding lonely and desperate…like a wolf howling for its friends, or using its mournful sound for communication and…
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Dogs in Progress
I wish these colors were going to turn out like this! Sadly it is food colouring so I know where I’m painting/blending my glazes…but I may have to invent some bright colours for new work seeing this! Light will shine from their eyes, perhaps in a tribute to the Trojan Dog sculpture from my old stomping…
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Toby – Dog of the West Village
Katie Jacobs – Open Studio and Art Exhibition “Dogs of the West Village” Thursday August 1st 2013 6-8pm Greenwich Pottery House 16 Jones St, Greenwich Village New York, New York http://www.greenwichhouse.org People say New York is no place for pets, but it seems New Yorkers didn’t get the memo. I have been working on a…
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